The Melbourne Storm will arrive in Sydney this afternoon to finalise preparations ahead of Sunday's NRL decider against Canterbury.

The Storm are favourites with the bookmakers after their 40-12 demolition of Manly last Friday night, despite Canterbury finishing as minor premiers followed by strong finals performances against Manly and Souths.

Melbourne's football manager Frank Ponissi has said the team is not buying into Bulldog coach Des Hasler's comments reinforcing the favourite tag.

He said Canterbury does have a significant advantage playing in front of a home crowd at the Olympic Stadium.

"Our old mate Dessy was trying to deflect the favourites' (tag) back on us ... but that's a huge advantage for them," Ponissi said.

"The fact they (Bulldogs) play at home ... but most of our players have been there (Olympic stadium) ... our three Origin players play there in Origin."

The club is confident that both centre Will Chambers and winger Sisa Waqa will be fit to play on Sunday.

Chambers is suffering from hamstring tightness, while Waqa has a knee injury which forced him to miss the preliminary final win over the Sea Eagles.

Ponissi said he expected the team to run out as named against the Bulldogs.

"There were reports this morning that Will twinged his hamstring which wasn't quite correct, he's still tight like a few of them from a hard game last weekend," he said.

"Three or four players yesterday had restricted training but the only injury concern is Sisa Waqa and at this stage we're very confident that he'll play."

Meanwhile Canterbury gave little away ahead of the grand final cancelling a scheduled open training session for the media.

Both squads will be present at Thursday morning's traditional grand final breakfast.